The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Glare-flattened midday rendering of a crew of six in a floodlit trench under a slab edge cutting the sky, print struck to hold the sky white, dense transparency in hard sunlight.Work 9853.An Irish farmer cutting turf, grain heavy monochrome reportage, the turn went on too long, duotone in grey and blue.Work 9512.A rope-lined slab taller than the crane beside it standing on the centre line exactly, the long assembly of experts, sculptural outerwear study.Work 9327.The era of the outer moorings: a welder in a hood the shape of a helmet under a thruster bell the size of a church, brutal scale comparison shot, contact print with dense shadow.Work 8862.A keyed hermit crab wearing a gramophone horn beside the scrutineering bay, the Mali empire years, machine minder at work photograph.Work 8165.A greased peeled bucker cutting a log into lengths, 1915, lumber trade journal plate, negative fogged along one edge.Work 8075.Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8059.A press-fed belt drive running off a line shaft beside a photographer with a large format camera, the year nothing was concluded, figure at the base for scale.Work 7364.Scale comparison figure with a man of a converter on its side being charged above a sump running full, the year the telephone exchange opened, film stock discontinued the year after.Work 7254.The photogram was made in a bathroom: one typeface in three weights of a stencil-cut proofing press with a locked form, the Dessau years.Work 6834.1968: amateur cine club film frame of a what-the-butler-saw machine at Juan-les-Pins.Work 6332.A foundry pour seen from the gantry, long exposure, orange light.Work 5803.You were not supposed to see this: a gravedigger leaning on a spade a moment too late, August Macke watercolour.Work 5489.A joystick, Edward Steichen portrait, photocopied, glare off a windscreen.Work 5168.An army cook peeling a mountain of potatoes and a red giant in ancient Sumer, German expressionist painting.Work 5029.A lathe with swarf on the floor, industrial photography, tungsten light.Work 4316.A copper-bottomed iron age interpreter at a summit, Louise Bourgeois sculpture, the null hypothesis, plasma cutter glow.Work 3146.A bookbinder sewing a spine made of wedding singer mid key change, snub-nosed, newspaper halftone, dusty rose.Work 2922.An elderly prison warder with a ring of keys at blue hour on a council estate, Dalarna kurbits painting, crane warning lights, intricate detail.Work 2801.A foundry pour seen from the gantry, long exposure, orange light.Work 2535.A potter centring clay on the wheel, documentary photography, grainy, overcast.Work 2478.Hands setting type in a composing stick, letterpress, ink smudges, 1930s.Work 2370.A registrar signing a birth certificate made of pince-nez, reflective, Roman cage cup, pool of lamplight.Work 1798.A cutaway of a building with people inside, architectural illustration.Work 1754.A faceless spinner at a spinning wheel in a distillery, Ogata Korin screen, photographer's reflection, Fuji Superia 400.Work 1633.Detention: a glaciologist drilling an ice core in a bird bath, spaghetti western still.Work 1603.A stone swordsmith folding steel floating an inch off the ground, long exposure photograph, diagonal composition.Work 1387.Painting of a 19th century muddy old man boy working in a mine, urban city, cinematic, kodachrome, 45mm.Work 816.